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Event Title: Tribute to Linda GreggEvent Description: This tribute will celebrate the life of Linda Gregg as a poet, mentor, and beloved friend who died on March 20, 2019. Participants will include Tree Swenson, book designer of Linda’s third book and longtime friend; Charif Shanahan, a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and former undergrad student of Linda's at Princeton University; Paisley Rekdal, Utah Poet Laureate; & Timothy Liu, who served as Linda's personal assistant and friend for almost thirty years.Event Category: TributesEvent Organizer and Moderator: Timothy Liu is the author of ten books of poems, including Luminous Debris: New & Selected Legerdemain (1992-2017) and Kingdom Come: A Fantasia. His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. He is Professor of English at William Paterson University.Event Participants:Paisley Rekdal is the author, most recently, of The Broken Country and Nightingale. A Guggenheim fellow and Utah's Poet Laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah, where she edits the web archive project Mapping Salt Lake City.Charif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and a finalist for the Lambda Literary and Thom Gunn Awards. A Cave Canem and former Stegner fellow, he is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.Tree Swenson is the executive director of the Seattle writers center Hugo House. She was previously executive director of the Academy of American Poets in NYC. Her work in the literary arts began with co-founding Copper Canyon Press, where she was publisher and executive director for 20 years.Welcome to Tribute to Linda Gregg. A few reminders before we begin: ? For those needing or wishing to follow along to a written text, please let the moderator of the panel (identify moderator) know and a printed copy of the presentation will be delivered to you. ? Please make sure that spaces marked for wheelchairs remain clear of chairs or other barriers. ? Treat service animals as working animals and do not attempt to distract or pet them. ? Be aware of those with chemical sensitivities and refrain from wearing perfume. ? Please be aware that your fellow attendees may have invisible disabilities. Do not question anyone’s use of an accommodation while at the conference, including for chairs reserved for those with disabilities. ? We realize the lines for the bathrooms may be long, but please refrain from using an accessible stall unless you require such accommodation. Please also be aware family restrooms located on level 2 are reserved for those with disabilities or those wishing to use a single-stall restroom. ? If you have any questions or concerns regarding conference accessibility, please call or text the Accessibility Hotline (503) 455-4127 or email events@.Participants will address and discuss, among other things, the following:A brief overview of Linda Gregg’s life and published works;A reading of favorite poems;Anecdotes on Linda’s teaching style in poetry workshops at Columbia, Iowa and Princeton;A look at working with Linda in designing her book The Sacraments of Desire;A consideration of Linda’s mythic influence on women poets as well as an up and coming generation;Anecdotes on life lessons Linda shared with visitors at 103 St Marks Place (NYC), 18 Perkins Ave. (Northampton), on the islands of Greece, and beyond.liut@wpunj.edu; paisley.rekdal@utah.edu; charif.shanahan@; tree@ ................
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